random password generator for NT 4.0 User Manager - Windows NT

This is a discussion on random password generator for NT 4.0 User Manager - Windows NT ; I run a school network, about 300 computers.
Due to budgets and all, we are still running a PDC, NT 4.0.
I am concerned with privacy, a teacher is more concerned with kids
having full access to lab computers at ...

random password generator for NT 4.0 User Manager

I am concerned with privacy, a teacher is more concerned with kids
having full access to lab computers at any time.

He proposes I make one general login account (example 'lab') that a
teacher can use for her students when thier class goes into a lab.

He hopes that there is some way that the PDC can generate a different
password each day, that kids cant figure out, but all teachers will
know... example;

program it so that the password is abc plus the day of the month, minus
3 (if it were Jan 5th, the password would be abc2, if it were Jan 1st,
it would be abc30... and so on)

is there a native way to do this? Or any way at all?
thanks in advance!
Jazz Mann

Re: random password generator for NT 4.0 User Manager

You can write a little program on Pascal/C, which executes such command:
net user lab ""

wrote the following:
> I run a school network, about 300 computers.
>
> Due to budgets and all, we are still running a PDC, NT 4.0.
>
> I am concerned with privacy, a teacher is more concerned with kids
> having full access to lab computers at any time.
>
> He proposes I make one general login account (example 'lab') that a
> teacher can use for her students when thier class goes into a lab.
>
> He hopes that there is some way that the PDC can generate a different
> password each day, that kids cant figure out, but all teachers will
> know... example;
>
> program it so that the password is abc plus the day of the month, minus
> 3 (if it were Jan 5th, the password would be abc2, if it were Jan 1st,
> it would be abc30... and so on)
>
> is there a native way to do this? Or any way at all?
> thanks in advance!
> Jazz Mann
>

Re: random password generator for NT 4.0 User Manager

hmmm, thanks for the tip.... but I am not a programmer, nor anything
close...
what now?

Den wrote:
> You can write a little program on Pascal/C, which executes such
command:
> net user lab ""
>
> wrote the following:
> > I run a school network, about 300 computers.
> >
> > Due to budgets and all, we are still running a PDC, NT 4.0.
> >
> > I am concerned with privacy, a teacher is more concerned with kids
> > having full access to lab computers at any time.
> >
> > He proposes I make one general login account (example 'lab') that a
> > teacher can use for her students when thier class goes into a lab.
> >
> > He hopes that there is some way that the PDC can generate a
different
> > password each day, that kids cant figure out, but all teachers will
> > know... example;
> >
> > program it so that the password is abc plus the day of the month,
minus
> > 3 (if it were Jan 5th, the password would be abc2, if it were Jan
1st,
> > it would be abc30... and so on)
> >
> > is there a native way to do this? Or any way at all?
> > thanks in advance!
> > Jazz Mann
> >